A survey a day... Peanut Labs

mytgroo · October 2013

Hello,
I thought I would be able to do a survey a day from Peanut Labs. It turns out after you do the main ones if you are honest, you get credit for a survey every three or four days. Need to do a little better with the survey company. Seems like there could be more revenue in this for cryptic.

mytgroo · October 2013

I tried to fill out another survey today and was booted after I finished the survey. I also noticed when I am doing the surveys, I keep getting kicked from finishing them because I do not answer the way the survey wants, this means they are not really looking for survey answers, but instead are looking for certain kinds of people. I think they are phishing for people.

I find that there is a certain amount of false advertising. They are looking for consumers. I generally am not that into consumption. So when I say I don't watch two hours of tv a day, eat potato chips with my lunch, it boots me, or drink a six pack of coors a night it lets me go. Maybe I should go on a cruise, or buy a digital camera. I have a digital camera and it still won't let me finish the digital camera survey.

I am noticing that sometimes, the screen goes blank and there are no offers, not that I would take most of them. No internet connection to the survey list. I always thought if these were real surveys, I would finish them then get the credit, but it is not working out this way. One a day, say some nonsense collect 30,000 zen... But, now it is, you did not match with what our sponsors are looking for half way through the survey, blank white screen of death, followed by in the history tab an incomplete survey.

I don't really care if Peanut Labs is a scam, etc. I just would like to be able to finish a survey each day and collect some zen... it is not happening.

beckylunatic · October 2013

It's demographics. I am not about to make up fictional children or a smoking habit to earn the equivalent of a dollar.

It seems to me that survey offers available to Canadians frontload their dealbreaker questions. I might complete a couple of surveys one week and none the next, but very little of my time is wasted by getting deep into one of these prior to being screened out.

Incidentally, 98 or 123 Zen surveys are most reliable to pay out, other than watching a video to earn between 2-10.

themagicbum87 · October 2013

It's definitely hit or miss. The first 10 or so questions on each survey are checking to see if you are the person in their demographic. I did many of these surveys when I played Smite, which had some sort of contract with PeanutLabs and 2 other survey sites. I ended up getting about $50 worth of in-game currency over a month or so. So if you can figure out how they work, it can be worth your time.

I just learned that you can earn Zen for completing surveys last night. The first survey I did was asking about men's suits. It took me about 10 minutes and paid me 14,700 Zen. Lucky me! I didn't believe it at first, but after I transferred my balance from my "Perfect World Wallet" over to Neverwinter, I logged in and sure enough, there it was. Over 14K Zen on my account.

PS -- In case you don't believe me, here is a screenshot:

aaronjf · October 2013

I don't believe it either as I have never seen a survey give near this kind of money. Especially a free survey that takes that short of time.. Have to call bs on this one..

themagicbum87 · October 2013

Well, believe it or not it worked. Just bought a 3500 zen white tiger mount and a 3500 zen rock companion.

msrebel1972 · October 2013

Yeah, I've never seen a free survey pay that much ZEN either. Must have been a one-off.

syka08 · October 2013

themagicbum87 wrote: »

Well, believe it or not it worked. Just bought a 3500 zen white tiger mount and a 3500 zen rock companion.

Da fack o.O. I wonder if that was a clerical error. they best not roll back on you if it is XD. Gratz!

I've been a supporter of doing surveys for zen/other game currencies for a while. I just have a unique enough set up that I have time to burn at work enough to get 1 to 3 done a day (after plenty of rejections X3).

werealchemist · October 2013

I dont think i have ever qualified for one of the good daily ones.

**** ridiculous racist surveys lol

first question.
What is your ethnicity?
white /caucasian.
Disqualified!

mrdannn · October 2013

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Danny/Desktop/HAMSTER.png[/IMG]how the **** could you get disqualified on a survey? its a freaking survey, not a test

tripsofthrymr · October 2013

mytgroo wrote: »

I keep getting kicked from finishing them because I do not answer the way the survey wants, this means they are not really looking for survey answers, but instead are looking for certain kinds of people. I think they are phishing for people.

As someone who works in the market research industry (but not for Peanut Labs) I can tell you that your conclusion is wrong.

You are screening out during the initial phase of the survey where they try to ensure two things: A) that you are somewhat interested in/knowledgeable about the topic they are surveying;

that they get a good representative sample of key demographics.

Personally I don't do Peanut Labs surveys anymore because the "initial phase" is sometimes DEEP into the survey and also because numerous technical glitches prevented me from getting credit for completed surveys. If you keep a screenshot of completion and contact their customer support, 2 in 3 times you get credit. A survey + customer support is a lot of work though for a buck.

tripsofthrymr · October 2013

mrdannn wrote: »

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Danny/Desktop/HAMSTER.png[/IMG]how the **** could you get disqualified on a survey? its a freaking survey, not a test

Danny, we cannot view images on your Desktop ;-)

tripsofthrymr · October 2013

msrebel1972 wrote: »

Yeah, I've never seen a free survey pay that much ZEN either. Must have been a one-off.

The Peanut Labs frame doesn't currently load on http://offers.perfectworld.com Maybe they have a bug where they are offering too much money and pulled the whole site for now :-)

themagicbum87 · October 2013

tripsofthrymr wrote: »

The Peanut Labs frame doesn't currently load on http://offers.perfectworld.com Maybe they have a bug where they are offering too much money and pulled the whole site for now :-)

I just checked and it's loading for me.

And yeah, I must have found a random one to get 14K Zen for one survey. I was really surprised when I got it. Haha, spent it as fast as I could this morning.

Luckily, my job also gives me free time throughout the day to complete surveys. I work as an audio transcriber from home, so I always have some spare time in between jobs coming in.

Keep at it, guys. You'll get enough Zen if you just do a few a day. It really does add up.

syka08 · October 2013

And quickly at that. Combine that with dungeon runs or even dailies and you can make some decent zen. With the new festival thing coming out, where you can win 256k RAD? That's around 66 zen a day at current rates (assuming max out of 24k refinement daily). Even the praying RAD can yield you 5 zen a day at current sale prices (assuming they don't increase past 360.)

Plenty of opportunities out there

.

rollingonit · October 2013

Notice though w/o the 14k lucky survey. He has 9 zen. Say you get 100 zen each survey to get 14k zen itd take 140 surveys.

I would never go through the headache to do 140 surveys. With the # of surveys you typically wouldn't qualify for, with the neverending loop of what race are you, and your age; idk how much trouble they are worth.

Man you got lucky 14k zen 1 survey?

I suppose if you have no job, have all day to do surveys, or you are able to successfully lie on each one to qualify, maybe...

lpsx · October 2013

since open beta to now from surveys gotten 761zen,
2get a 14kzen survey u have 2buy something, or then again u just hit the jackpot good luck but that's the first time
i seen posted on forum. There must be more players out there that got the same survey....
u did the right thing in spending the money straight away, the best free farming i have seen was in the last lock box event
1.3M AD / 850 000 AD / 750 000 AD but those players were online 24h straight they lost feeling in the right arm holding the mouse.

stercogburn · October 2013

I've heard too many malware horror stories to do the surveys. I don't know how many are accurate but there's nothing in Neverwinter I want enough to risk my PC systems with stuff like that.

diotelp · October 2013

Oh HAMSTER, just got to the end of a survey about clothes, thought yeah, i'm gonna get this 80 zen, right at the end...bam, you do not qualify...

denverralphy · October 2013

Just saw a survey for "Beer Drinkers", so I'm like... "Yeay! That's right up my alley."

First question asks what kind of alcoholic beverages I've purchased in the last 2 months. I chose "Beer", because A) It's true, and

The survey is for beer drinkers right?

So it was a bit odd that after that first and only question I answered, I got disqualified. Go figger.

jintortle · October 2013

I worked once for a Market Research Company.

Sometimes you would be disqualified 1/2 way through the Survey if you Did not for example use the right product etc...

I was kicked form a $$ survey I do out of game because they "checking the browser" - it showed grapes and I picked grapes and wow was kicked (was using Chrome) - It might have been for Microsoft or some other PC company -but like, Yeah! You can get kicked at any time because the person who is paying for the survey does not want people who do /don't / hate/ wrong time/ haven't used their product or thier competitors. They want specifically targeted areas, not jsut general public responses.

So not being honest / or honest = all the same. You don't know who the client is and what answer would disqualify you.

But I do admit you can lie in some to get past the initial screening.

silentraven72 · October 2013

I'll stick with harrispoll. With them, I either qualify or I don't. Never get booted just before finishing a survey, and I know they issue rewards.

jintortle · October 2013

mrdannn wrote: »

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Danny/Desktop/HAMSTER.png[/IMG]how the **** could you get disqualified on a survey? its a freaking survey, not a test

The Survey is paid for by a client. The client uses their marketing budget to get an idea about their product and their competitors.

It is all big $$$ and they want specific targeted areas. Sometimes you could get kicked because for instance your age demographic has already met its quota. For example - after 300 20-30 year old people they do not want any more.

I have spent days in a call center after quotas have been met in the easiest age brackets just ringing up trying to get the rest of the 100 60-70 year old people who smoke cigarettes or the last 20 18-20 year old's who have an opinion on - well really anything - pretty hard to tie that age group down.

With 30 people trolling random telephone numbers for a day or 2 to try and get 100 surveys done after a lot of geographical or age quotas is finished is a lot of $$$.

A Tobacco company spent $12 Million a year for 4 full months of survey work - criteria - you had to be a smoker - and because the survey took over 20 minutes we paid the people $30-$60.

SO the surveys are like a test - a testing of the Market by a company.

aaronjf · October 2013

I will say it again, no survey should kick you after spending more than 1 minute on the thing.. ANYTHING to disqualify you should be asked within the first few minutes.. I am so done w/ these surveys. I can't count the times I have spent 15-30 minutes just to get eliminated at the end of it.. P***es me the f off... Done w/ the game/surveys though

lewstelamon01 · October 2013

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A survey a day... Peanut Labs

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